THE COMING HARVEST...

Concerning the coming harvest, here is a prophetic word given by the late Bob Jones:

“He said I am going to bring 1 billion youth to myself in one of the greatest awakenings of all time.  I’m going to glorify Myself beyond anything that has ever happened that’s every been done in scripture.  I am going to repeat it thousands and thousands of times.  And I want you to go back and tell them this is what I am going to do in one great wave.  So throughout the years I have stayed alive because I am going to see it.  I was told I would see the first of it. I will see it.  I was also told that I would see the glory.  The glory is here to stay, it will never leave again.  And that glory is a preparation for a harvest beyond imagination.  One billion youth, over half the population of the world is under 18. One billion at once.  I am not saying that will be all because there will be those that are already saved.  One great harvest.  One great increase of over a billion.  I believe that it will probably begin around the year of 2020.
 
I believe the first harvest are those that are being sown now by the remnant seed.  Those who have been faithful to Christ and looked towards Him and still believed.  There’s been a death take place in their life and an impartation of righteousness.  Where they become like that seed that is planted on the other side of the cross. There are 2 sides of the cross.  One is to die and the other side is the spirit of holiness to where we become like a seed and where we raise up we will become like that, a holy seed that will have resurrection power in it and be able to minister out of that to how many come to us.  It will be a multiplication of the seed. 
 
So right now until the year 2012,  see the first harvest.  And it will be greater than anything you have ever seen.  After that there will be a gathering in of the first harvest and it will be re-sown for a second harvest.  And I believe the 2nd harvest will go between 2012 and 2020.  And then it will be gathered into the granary and sowed for a 3rd harvest.  And out of that 3rd harvest they will be a billion souls come to the Lord.  Most of them will be young. 
 
But I believe now is not to the youth as much as to the over 50’s.  The over 50’s must come in now to oversee it, protect it.  Get behind it, never in front of it.  Finance it, motivate it, direct it.  I believe what He is speaking now to these mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers is to get a vision, that your life don't end at 50, it begins.  And it goes on from now on.  And so I believe what the Holy Spirit is waiting for now is for the older people, the Joshua’s to get into place.  Joshua was not a youth, he was an old man when he crossed the Jordan.  And the Joshua's as being called to stand up again and begin to lead again.  Bring the fathers and the grandfathers back into the body of Christ so they can direct the youth. 
 
And the youth once you get behind it and point the direction, you wont need to get in front of it, they will take it.  For youth are looking for something and they are searching everywhere.  And they are the brightest of any generation that has ever been on the earth .  They are those foreknown and predestinated.  And when they find Christ they will find what they are looking for.  And they will go out the whole world.  They won't be afraid to go places or to those that are dangerous.  But they will go everyplace because they have found Him.  They have looked in drugs and immorality and all kinds of other spirituality things and they have not found any basis or truth in it.  They are looking for the truth, they are looking for the true church.  And we are getting ready to see the true church come and I believe it is going to be in the over 50’s first.  That underneath it will be like leaders that prepare.  But the youth are coming.”